Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftes…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. ✨ Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'., p.238
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. ✨ Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'., p.238

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